PV Sindhu and Parupalli Kashyap entered the second round, while H.S. Prannoy, the men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa, in both the doubles and mixed doubles, lost in the Korea Open Superseries badminton championships.

B. Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma and the men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also advanced to the second round.

Sourabh Verma lost his first round clash to Japanese Kenta Nishimoto 21-18, 13-21, 19-21 in an hour and three minutes.